Bottle-stopper



(No Model.) I

. F. BURNS.

BOTTLE STOPPER.

UNITED STATES PATENT OF IcE,

FRANK BURNS, OF NORTH EAST, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,328, dated February 17, 1885.

Application filed January 8, 1885. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK BURNS, a citizen of the United States, residing at North East, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Bottle-Stoppers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appert-ains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to stoppers for bottles, 820.; and its object is to provide, in connection with the means of fastening it, a stopper which is easily and naturally carried to and from the mouth of the bottle, may be operated with rapidity,will perform its function of stopping the bottle with certainty whichever side or part is presented to the mouth,which may be fabricated economically, and shall possess great durability; and to this end my invention consists in a spherical stopper composed of a spherical core of metal, glass, porcelain, or other hard material, and a coating or covering of rubber or other elastic packing material, and perforated for the introduction of a spindle or bearing on which it may turn.

It also consists of the combination,with the hail of a stopper-fastener, of a spherical stopper composed of a spherical core of metal, glass, porcelain, or other hard material, and a coating or covering of rubber or other elastic packing material. a

' In the drawing the figure is a view, partly in section and partly in elevation, of my improved spherical stopper and the means whereby it is most conveniently operated.

A is a bottle, to which is attached a stopperfastener consisting of bail B and W-shaped lever B, carrying aspherical stopper composed of internal solid material,G,and an elastic covering, 0. The mouth of the bottle is preferably beveled or countersunk, as shown, to provide a broad seat for the stopper, to avoid laceration of the covering, and the hole or perforation through the sphere is preferably, but not necessarily, enlarged at the extremities, so as to give some oscillation of the ball on its spindle or bearing,that it may with certainty take its seat, notwithstanding. itis out of its central position.

I am aware that spherical bottle-stoppers are not new in themselves made entirely of hard material, nor are spherical stoppers combined with stopper-fasteners, the stopper being made entirely of elastic material or of elastic material provided with a metallic thimble, new, and such I do not claim; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A spherical bottle-stopper adapted for use in combination with a stopper-fastener consisting of an internal sphere of hard material and a covering of elastic or packing material, the whole perforated to receive a spindle, substantially as described.

2. The combination,with the bail of a stopper-fastener, of a spherical stopper consisting of an internal sphere of hard material and a covering of elastic or packing material, substantially as described. I

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK BURNS.

Witnesses:

B. O. SPooNER, M. O. HORTON. 

